Evaluating targets and costs of treatment for secondary hyperparathyroidism in incident dialysis patients: the FARO-2 study.

At the second survey, the percentage of patients reported to be at target for PTH was slightly higher in the intravenous paricalcitol group than in the oral calcitriol group, despite a significantly lower percentage of intravenous paricalcitol patients than oral calcitriol patients being at target at baseline (18.2% versus 34.4%, respectively, P <0.0001); percentages of patients at target for phosphorus showed a trend towards an increase in the intravenous paricalcitol group, but a slight decrease in the oral calcitriol group (at the first survey, the percentage of patients at target for phosphorus was significantly higher in the oral calcitriol group [ P =0.009], without a significant difference at the second survey).

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